Movie News 07.06.13

• Strike three: The Lone Ranger marks the summer's third big-budget flop (Hollywood Reporter)
• The upcoming Terminator reboot and Hollywood's love of franchises (PlanetIvy)
• Breakthrough: Animated Boxtrolls trailer first to feature same-sex parents (Hollywood Reporter)
• Hollywood retools to lure burgeoning Chinese market (Guardian)
• Christian Bale: No Justice League movie for me (SuperHeroHype)
• Geena Davis and the United Nations collaborate to study women in film (Huffington Post)

Outside Screening Reflection 04: 1990 - Present

For your fourth OSR, please watch and write about a film from the list below: 

1. 21 Grams (González Iñárritu, 2003 USA)
2. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Zeitlin, 2012 USA) 
3. Boogie Nights (Anderson, 1997 USA)
4. The Blair Witch Project (Sanchez/Mwyck, 1999 USA)
5. Chicago (Marshall, 2002 USA)
6. Dancer in the Dark (von Trier, 2000 USA/Denmark)
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004 USA)
8. Fargo (Coen Bros., 1996 USA)
9. Frida (Taymor, 1992 USA/Mexico)
10. Les Misérables (Hooper, 2012 USA/UK)
11. Memento (Nolan, 2001 USA)
12. Menace II Society (Hughes Bros., 1993 USA)
13. My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant, 1991 USA)
14. The Queen (Frears, 2006 UK/France/Italy)
15. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992 USA)
16. The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001 USA)
17. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Minghella, 1999 USA)
18. Thelma & Louise (Scott, 1991 USA)
19. The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011 USA)
20. Winter’s Bone (Granik, 2010 USA) 

Requirements:

• MLA Style
• One full page in length

Due: Tu 07.07

Week 05: Do the Right Thing [1989]

RADIO RAHEEM 

Let me tell you the story of Right
Hand, Left Hand. It's a tale of good
and evil. Hate: it was with this hand
that Cain iced his brother. Love: these
five fingers, they go straight to the 

soul of man. The right hand: the hand of
love. The story of life is this: static.
One hand is always fighting the other
hand, and the left hand is kicking
much ass. I mean, it looks like the right
hand, Love, is finished. But hold on, 

stop the presses, the right hand is coming
back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the
ropes, now, that's right. Ooh, it's a
devastating right and Hate is hurt, he's
down. Left-Hand Hate KOed by Love.

Week 05: Do the Right Thing (1989)

Tu 07.02

• Read: REEL—See “Synthesis essay readings” above
• Class: Writers’ workshop; Reading discussion; Multimedia presentations
• Due: SYNTHESIS ESSAY—DRAFT 1 (BRING 3 COPIES)

Th 07.04

• NO CLASS—HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY 

Upcoming:

Week 06: Rear Window (1954)

Tu 07.09

• Read: TAB p. 1 – 102
• Class: Reading discussion; Multimedia Presentations
• Due: SYNTHESIS ESSAY—FINAL DRAFT; OSR 04: 1990 – Present

Th 07.11

• Read: TAB p. 103 – 167
• Class: Writers’ workshop; Reading discussion; Watch—Excerpts from The Celluloid Closet (Epstein/Friedman, 1995 USA)
• Due: RESEARCH PAPER—UP TO APPROX. PG. 4 (BRING 2 COPIES)